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Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Comit Suicide
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=860722006
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-11T030958Z_01_N10232278_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-GUANTANAMO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1
What do you think of Guantanamo?
Some people have been held there against their wills for 4.5 years now without charge .. how come the USA is allowed to even get away with it?
Other reports say prisoners that no longer want to live under those conditions are being force fed by drips to keep them alive.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-11T030958Z_01_N10232278_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-GUANTANAMO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1
What do you think of Guantanamo?
Some people have been held there against their wills for 4.5 years now without charge .. how come the USA is allowed to even get away with it?
Other reports say prisoners that no longer want to live under those conditions are being force fed by drips to keep them alive.
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honestly what have they got to live for since they'll never see the outside of that place
and who says its only muslims in there.......
I bet you're unable to see the irony here.
Do you think anyone could feel that desperate after being confined to a foreign concentration camp for 4 years?
I agree imagine if any of us was locked up for 4 years, perhaps in a country where we didn't understand the language, you go on a hungar strike and the people holding you captive stick needles in your arms to force you to stay alive.
You can see no end to your situation, I'm sure it's more then enough to make anyone want to just end it all.
You really are a complete and utter moron. :rolleyes:
TBH - good for them. The torment, torture, maltreatment, and abuse is all over for them now. No longer do they have to put up with living in a concentration camp the rest of their days with little to no evidence for any reason of their being there.
Good for them. If the Iranians opened a camp, and treated US citizens like this - they'd be hell! But no, America is allowed to do this with no action taken against them.
"Then the face of Big Brother faded away again, and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals: 'WAR IS PEACE' 'FREEDOM IS SLAVERY' and 'IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH'."
--From George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
How can we be so sure that it was suicide. Who told us it was suicide? The military. The military cover up of haditha was exposed. For all we know they could just be minimizing the damage the deaths would make.
The prisoners was in the highest security wing in the guantanamo. The prisoners would’ve been under 24h surveillance. And to death will not come instantly when you hang yourself with linen. The suffocation is slow.
Careful there nic, you'll be accused of being me! :thumb:
Well, a few have stood against it.
And China even made a Joke in the UN how the US could get away with Guantanamo, and that they then decided to launch an Attack on Cuba about Human Rights!
God, the UN is a farce.
That would make things interesting.
Reform needs to happen but removing the right of veto would be a bad idea. Although Japan should be added to the five permanent members of the Security Council. (Who better to lead the reform than Tony Blair? When he leaves Downing Street Blair I feel would make an excellent UN Secretary General).
So what would you propose to put there to keep an eye on international law?
Also The US are claiming the suicides an act of PR This administration gets worse by the day. Something needs to be done. :mad:
Lets see... human rights? The prevention of war? In a world without international law a state like the United States would just do what it wants...more so than now? Why else is the USA constantly threatening the UN.The strong would do what they will and the weak would do what they must. States are selfish and will do what they want. Noones ever going to suggest that domestic society within states should be based upon contracts between individuals, so why would states be any different.
Just look at all the wars in Africa, the UN just sits there and let's it happen.
Certain countries are kind of setting up their own UN such as the UK and US simply because the UN is worthless.
Might it have something to do with five members in particular that have the right to veto anything they please?
The five countries that see each other as superior or more important to the rest, however, don't want to part with their precious right of veto or contemplate the possibility of third world little nations winning votes on issues they don't care much fore.
Those countries are to blame- not the UN itself.
and the council is worth having for quick action.